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Photograph of a taro plant

Description: This is a photograph of the taro plant, a root vegetable which grows in Southeast Asia, Africa, and Oceania. The edible root, known as paan in Manipuri, is used in traditional dishes.
Date: 1986~
Creator: Thounaojam, Harimohon
Partner: UNT College of Information
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List of Lamkang words

Description: Wordlist of various words in English and Lamkang, with categories including nature, kinship, and animals. The word list was compiled by the Manipuri Language Cell for eliciting basic words for sketches and dictionaries.
Date: unknown
Creator: Thounaojam, Harimohon
Partner: UNT College of Information
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List of Lamkang words

Description: Wordlist of various words in English and Lamkang, with categories including animals, fruits and vegetables, insects, ailments, months, days, body parts, and colors. The list was created by the Tribal Languages of Manipur institute.
Date: January 2007
Creator: Thounaojam, Harimohon
Partner: UNT College of Information

Retelling of the Pear Story: Surmangol

Description: The Pear Story is a video stimulus commonly utilized in language documentation where speakers are shown the silent six minute video and then asked to describe it. In the video, a young boy steals a basket of pears from a farmer, then shares the stolen pears with three boys. This is a recording of H. Surmangol Sharma’s retelling of the Pear Story.
Date: September 14, 2007
Duration: 4 minutes 46 seconds
Creator: Thounaojam, Harimohon
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Scripts for conversational vignette

Description: Typed and handwritten conversation scripts translated from Manipuri to Lamkang. Conversation topics include riding the bus, staying at a hotel, visiting a market, getting a haircut, talking on the phone, and meeting colleagues.
Date: May 20, 2008
Creator: Thounaojam, Harimohon
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Retelling of the Pear Story: Harimohon

Description: The Pear Story is a video stimulus commonly utilized in language documentation where speakers are shown the silent six minute video and then asked to describe it. In the video, a young boy steals a basket of pears from a farmer, then shares the stolen pears with three boys. This is a recording of Harimohon Thounaojam’s retelling of the Pear Story.
Date: 2009
Duration: 5 minutes
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
Partner: UNT College of Information

Analytical discussion of the Squirrel Story

Description: A discussion of Theipa paomin [the Squirrel Story] with Beshot Khullar about his telling of the story. This recording could be used to illustrate how linguists can get aids to analyze grammars via transcription and translation of connected text.
Date: May 17, 2008
Duration: 1 hour 12 minutes 01 second
Creator: Khullar, Rengpu Rex
Partner: UNT College of Information
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List of ornaments and dress words

Description: This document is part of a larger wordlist created by the Tribal Language Institute of Manipur. The Lamkang translations were initally collected by Harimohon Thounaojam and then recollected with tones by Shobhana Chelliah.
Date: unknown
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Elicitation of active constructions through sportscaster language

Description: Illustrating Sportscaster Language. Shobhana Chelliah asks Rengpu Rex Khullar and Harimohon Thounaojam to describe goals and plays in an imaginary football (American soccer) game. Rex provides this in Lamkang, while Harimohon provides this in Manipuri. The purpose was to elicit focus and/or highly active constructions.
Date: 2008
Duration: 35 seconds
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Analytical discussion of speech acts

Description: Rengpu Rex Khullar provides discussion and examples of speech acts: complimenting, apologizing, commanding and a traditional trickster story. These are compared to Manipuri (Meiteiron) speech acts with discussion from Harimohon Thounaojam.
Date: 2008
Duration: 3 minutes 41 seconds
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
Partner: UNT College of Information

Conversation about the hospital in Chandel and preparing for the Totlang Kam festival

Description: Recording of Beshot Khullar and Rengpu Rex Khullar discussing about preparing for the Totlang Kam festival. There are three tracks. The first is the voice of Harimohon Thounaojam encouraging the speakers to pick a topic of conversation. The back and forth is clearly produced for the sake of the recorder and often resembles an interview rather than conversation.
Date: May 18, 2008
Duration: 10 minutes 36 seconds
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
Partner: UNT College of Information
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